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Our review of The Black Death: A Global History, by Thomas Asbridge, first published in April 2026. The Black Death: A Global History successfully combines a broad view of this demographic disaster, with tightly focussed personal stories...
In the second half of the 1920s D H Lawrence was dying, and he had things to say and demonstrate before death shut him up. He poured those messages into Lady Chatterley’s Lover, which is widely known as a “dirty book” but in reality is...
Here’s the counterpart of the creamy Saucy Noods. I’ve only seen it once and that was at a liquidation style place so unsure if it still exists, but the creamy one was quite good so hopefully this is good and it is still around. Maruchan...
June winds down. Quick trip to Seattle to help my brother, a visit to one of my old employers, a lovely visit with my stepmom and her husband, World Cup fans, etc. On a quick trip to Seattle to help my brother with another eye surgery, I...
It’s time for "the opposite of doomscrolling” — a new Linkfest, in which I sort through the planet-wide digital rummage-sale of the Internet to locate the finest items of culture, science and technology, just for you. I really enjoy The...
You may have seen Michel Kuka Mboladinga, the DR Congo superfan who stands like a statue throughout match their matches. Sadly he was denied a visa for their crucial match against Uzbekistan which DR Congo won 3–1 to qualify for the...
⭐⭐⭐ 3/5 Stars - I will have to re-read this one, audio was a mistake and I didn't get it until too close to the end! The post Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay appeared first on The Wallflower Digest.
People who play music well tend to play one thing well. They picked the cello at age six, got yelled at by a Russian woman for a decade, and now they are simply The Cello Person. I respect that. I will never be that. I am a serial...
10-06-26 NBA Blue sounds like some kind of sports award or US cop drama.It was actually the first occasion on which I saw common blues this year. And the second time I saw Northern Brown Argus; although the first decent photos. It...
One of the most popular posts in this blog’s history was Common Knowledge and Aumann’s Agreement Theorem, based on a lecture that I gave to high-school students 11 years ago. One of the impacts of that post, I’m proud to say, is that...
This is a putative class action lawsuit. The named plaintiff provided intimate images to her then-fiance, who (after the breakup) created fake Facebook profiles of the plaintiff and uploaded her intimate images without consent (turning...
Minimal lifestyle brand MUJI has been in the homebuilding business for over a decade. And in recent year they have expanded their focus to not just building new homes but renovating old kominka folk homes. The latest offshoot of that...
A couple of years ago, I was fortunate enough to be in the audience at the Sheldonian to see Ali Smith awarded the Bodley Medal. On that occasion she read a passage from what would later become the opening section of her next novel:...
While we wait for a general release, the system card is the best hint as to what is going on with the new candidate for America’s Next Top Model, GPT-5.6. This is only an OpenAI model card, so by my standards it’s a light read. There’s a...
I said I was taking requests for Firmament posts, and Vayra (after observing that hat culture in 2005 was fucked up, for semirelated reasons) inquired after a Firmament hat culture post. Here is that post.THE GRAND DUCHY OF...